MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 – More Treats From the Past

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Monday, July 20th, 2020

Our  109th Edition

MORE TREATS FROM THE PAST

LOUIS LOZOWICK
ARTIST

PART 1 OF 2

THESE ARE A SMALL SAMPLING OF LOZOWICK’S WORK ON VIEW AT THE SMITHSONIAN WEBSITE.

Louis Lozowick

(1892 – 1973)
was a Russian-American painter and printmaker. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist, and mainly produced streamline, urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years.

Lozowick was born in the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1892 to Abraham and Mary (Tafipolsky) Lozowick.HIs parenets moved to Kiev when he was young, and he attended Kiev Art School before he immigrated to the USA, where he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design (New York) and Ohio State University. In America, Lozowick became fluent in English, in addition to his native Ukrainian, Russian, and Yiddish.

From 1919 to 1924 Lozowick lived and traveled throughout Europe, spending most of his time in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. In the mid-1920s he started making his first lithographs. Tanks #1, 1929, lithograph Lower Manhattan, 1936, lithograph

By 1926, when he joined the editorial board of the left-wing journal, New Masses, he was well-versed in current artistic developments in Europe, such as Constructivism and de Stijl. These hard-edged, linear styles, evident in a lithograph called “New York (Brooklyn Bridge),” suggest the possibility of an efficient reframing of the world, as did the political theories espoused in New Masses.

A version of this lithograph was planned as a cover for New Masses that was never published. Lozowick was highly interested in the development of the Russian avant-garde and even published a monograph on Russian Constructivism entitled Modern Russian Art. In 1943 Lozowick moved to New Jersey where he continued to paint and make prints. The human condition remained a constant theme of his art, and an ongoing interest in nature appears more frequently in his later works.

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